User-configurable radiological data transformation, routing and archiving engine

Abstract

A user-configurable radiological data transformation, routing and archiving engine includes a plurality of sub-engines representing algorithms programmed to be processed by a processor, the sub-engines including a user-configurable transformation sub-engine, a user-configurable routing sub-engine, a user-configurable archiving sub-engine and a user-configurable priors puller sub-engine.

1 . A user-configurable medical data filtering, transformation, routing and archiving engine comprising:
 a network interface coupled to a plurality of medical data capturing systems;   a medical data processing device coupled to a memory, the processing device being programmed to perform the steps of:
 displaying a user interface, the user interface enabling configuration a set of medical data filter conditions, a set of medical data transformation rules, a set of routing rules, and a set of archiving rules;
 wherein the set of medical data filter conditions comprises a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM field, a first HL7 field, a first XDS-I information field; and 
 the set of medical data transformation rules comprises a transformation filter condition, the transformation filter condition comprising a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM field, a first HL7 field, and a first XDS-I information field; 
 
 receiving, through the user interface, the set of medical data filter conditions, the set of medical data transformation rules, the set of routing rules, and the set of archiving rules; 
 obtaining a first medical data set from the plurality of medical data capturing systems by applying the set of medical data filter conditions to the medical data capturing system; 
 receiving through the user interface a user-configurable workflow task; applying the user-configurable workflow task to the first medical data set; 
 modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the user-configurable workflow task; 
 modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the set of medical data transformation rules when the transformation filter condition is satisfied; and 
 obtaining a second medical data set comprising applied a modified first medical data set. 
   
     
     
         2 . The engine of  claim 1 , wherein the medical data processing device is programmed to receive a user-configurable encryption scheme and a user-configurable compression scheme through the user interface and to modify medical data in accordance with the encryption scheme and the user-configurable compression scheme. 
     
     
         3 . The engine of  claim 1 , wherein set of medical data transformation rules further comprises an operation selected from the group consisting of: modify field, remove field and run script. 
     
     
         4 . The engine of  claim 1 , wherein the medical data processing device is further programmed to perform the step of: receiving, through the user interface, priors pulling conditions, the priors pulling conditions comprising a second logical operator any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field. 
     
     
         5 . The engine of  claim 1 , wherein the user-configurable HL7 workflow further comprises a task selected from the group consisting of HL7 condition, HL7 transformation, route HL7 message, send HL7 message, build worklist entry, export to CSV file, build HL7 message, return HL7 message, priors request, submit document to the XDS repository service, execute script, build DICOM object and DICOM condition. 
     
     
         6 . A computer-implemented method of filtering, transforming, routing and archiving radiological data comprising:
 providing, from a medical data processing device coupled to a memory, a graphical user interface (GUI) coupled to a plurality of medical data capturing systems, the GUI enabling configuration of a set of medical data filter conditions, a set of medical data transformation rules, a set of routing conditions, a set of routing rules, a set of priors pulling conditions, a set of priors pulling rules, a set of archiving conditions, and a set of archiving rules;
 wherein the set of medical data filter conditions comprises a first logical operator and any of a first DICOM field, a first HL7 field, a first XDS-I information field; and 
 the set of medical data transformation rules comprises a user-configurable script configured to cause the medical data processing device to modify a set of medical data in accordance with a set of predetermined modification parameters; 
   receiving, at the medical data processing device, the set of medical data filter conditions, the set of medical data transformation rules, the set of predetermined modification parameters, the set of routing conditions, the set of routing rules, the set of priors pulling conditions, the set of priors pulling rules, the set of archiving conditions, and the set of archiving rules;   obtaining a first medical data set from the plurality of medical data capturing systems;   executing, with the medical data processing device, the user-configurable script when the set of medical data filter conditions are satisfied;
 receiving through the user interface a user-configurable workflow task; 
 applying the user-configurable workflow task to the first medical data set; 
 modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the user-configurable workflow task; 
 modifying the first medical data set in accordance with the set of medical data transformation rules when the transformation filter condition is satisfied; and 
 obtaining a second medical data set comprising a modified first medical data set. 
   
     
     
         7 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , further comprising receiving, at the medical data processing device, a user-configurable encryption scheme and a user-configurable compression scheme. 
     
     
         8 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein, the set of routing rules comprises a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field. 
     
     
         9 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein the set of priors pulling conditions comprises a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field. 
     
     
         10 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein the set of archiving rules comprises user-configurable storage duration. 
     
     
         11 . The engine of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the set of routing rules comprises a routing condition, the routing condition comprising a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field tags, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, the first XDS-I information filed, and a second XDS-I information field; and   the medical data processing device is further configured to perform the step of routing the medical data in accordance with the set of routing rules if the routing filter condition is satisfied.   
     
     
         12 . The engine of  claim 1 , wherein:
 the set of archiving rules comprises an archiving condition, the archiving condition comprising a second logical operator and any of the first DICOM field, a second DICOM field, the first HL7 field, a second HL7 field, a third HL7 field, the first XDS-I information field, and a second XDS-I information field; and   the medical data processing device is further configured to perform the step of archiving the medical data in accordance with the set of archiving rules if the archiving filter condition is satisfied.